Joe Colombo

The famous Tube chair has been designed by Joe Colombo and produced by Flexform. Joe Colombo has always been searching for new ideas and innovative projects. This iconic chair shows the amazing work of Colombo which is as simple as it is extraordinary.The chair is a modular design with several ways of being used. It's named after its structure made of 4 tubes of different diameters. It can be arranged in many combination such as all the tubes nested together, or one inside the other. All the tubes can be assembled in one and put in its original dust bag. A Tube chair is part of the Timeline of Art History collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art de New York.

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Producer : Flexform

Sold to Palm Beach, USA

JOE COLOMBO

(1930 - 1971)

Joe Colombo was an Italian architect and industrial designer. His furniture design is characterized by large, round shapes, as well as the use of modern technologies, which created new design solutions.

He works as a car dealer before starting to study architecture at the Polytechnic in Milan. Before he finds his way to industrial design and architecture, he mainly devotes himself to sculpture and painting. In 1962 he opens his own design studio in Milan and initially works on some architectural assignments.

His career remains short as he tragically dies of heart failure at the age of 40, but in his ten years as a designer he designs iconic pieces: for example, the all-glass Elda Armchair (1963), 1964 Ragno exterior lighting, which also provides seating, the Universal chair (1965/67) made entirely of polypropylene, stackable and available in different heights,
and a modular furniture series that can be put together in various variations to suit the architecture.